THE LEVEL OF CRITICAL THINKING SKILL AND DISPOSITION OF FORM TWO STUDENTS IN INTERGRATED LIVING SKILL SUBJECT IN KEDAH AND ITS RELATIONSHIP

This research evaluates the level of critical thinking skills and the disposition of critical thinking among the form students from two secondary schools in Kuala Muda and Yan, Kedah and the relationship between the two variables. The dimensions of critical thinking skills that are analysed in this study were 1) Induction; 2) Deduction; 3) The credibility of the statement; and 4) Identifying Assumptions and for the level of critical thinking disposition students were inovation aspect, and also the involvement aspect and cognitive maturity aspect. The instrument used in this study are Cornell Critical Thinking Test to evaluate the level of critical thinking and to assess the level of critical thinking disposition to use instruments of University of Florida - Engagement, Maturity and Innovativeness (UF/EMI). Both the instrument is adapted to the Malay and testing randomly assigned to 370 students. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation and percentage. While statistical inference is also used to analyse the data for the Pearson correlation between the two variables. The findings showed that the level of critical thinking skills of students in form two in intergrated living skills subjects at Kedah are on the lower level. While the tendency is on critical thinking disposition were strong relationship between the level of critical thinking skills and critical thinking disposition showed a positive relationship between the two variables.